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Post by dem bones on Feb 25, 2009 19:53:41 GMT
With all the talk about Dennis Wheatley and our much missed friend Bob Rothwell on the Arrow-Legend thread in recent days, I've been reading back through Bob's comments on Vault Mk. I and thought it might be an idea to revive his "what have you collected" as we've a much changed 'membership' since then! So, i'm guessing many of you have picked up the occasional paperback here and there, but what other stuff do you collect? Come now, don't be embarrassed. No one will laugh .....
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Post by allthingshorror on Feb 25, 2009 20:09:03 GMT
When I was a kid I used to collect erasers. Had about 300 of them, all stored in little tins, each one in sellophane so the oils in them wouldn't bleed.
And I'm sure people are sick of the photos I put up now and again of stuff that I do find - but I'm just proud of the stuff that I do get, and think that it's of cultural interest to all you lot!
Nowadays I mainly just collect Pan Horror stuff. I WILL boast here and say that for those who give a shit, I think I have the most comprehensive collection in relation to these books. And will hopefully be aqquiring two more pieces this year from private sellers - the original paintings to Pan Horror 14 and 30 if talks and negotiations go well.
I also collect original paperback paintings and prints.
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Post by carolinec on Feb 25, 2009 21:08:53 GMT
Well, you folks know I'm an autograph collector - signed books, magazines, photos, artprints and postcards (those being mainly Doctor Who-related), a Doctor Who "Bessie" toy car, a couple of signed scripts, a harmonica signed by Tull's Ian Anderson, and a signed plastic kazoo from the "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" stage show (the last one dear old Humph Lyttleton did before he died). In the past I've collected: Cats - china ones, wooden ones, stone ones, real ones from cat rescues, etc Stuffed toys - especially Ty Beanies (cats, mostly) Louis Wain cat illustrations (er, I've just noticed a theme here .. ) Interesting you should mention rubbers .. er, erasers .. Johnny. I was clearing out some old toys a few years ago to see what we could put into auction. And I found (a) a collection of rubber monsters (not actually erasers, just things to play with) and (b) some Disney type character erasers, the type you stick on the end of a pencil - neither of which I was able to bring myself to part with - I still have them! And then, of course, there's the book collection ...
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Post by allthingshorror on Feb 25, 2009 21:22:33 GMT
And then, of course, there's the book collection ... God - I think the Vault would implode if we started to go down that little road....
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Post by lobolover on Feb 25, 2009 22:43:36 GMT
I colected rocks.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Feb 25, 2009 23:15:59 GMT
A whole lot of Monty Python stuff - records (including flexi-discs and the like), books, videos, DVDs, old magazines with interviews, programmes from the live shows, calendars, trading cards, mugs, computer games, action figures... Stopped being so obsessive when the same stuff started coming out in different packaging and naff things like shower caps started creeping out. Still reckon I paid for Eric Idle's house in Hollywood and half of Cleese's ranch.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 26, 2009 10:01:20 GMT
A quick raid on the Vault Media Enterprises clippings library unearthed this cautionary tale of collection mania gone seriously beyond the bounds of duty. Not sure if it's as spine-tingling as an "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" plastic kazoo but i can't help but admire his dedication .... Has anyone built up a collection almost, as it were, by accident? You know, you didn't consciously set out to hunt the stuff down, it was more like the other way around? I seem to have amassed an awful lot of bad occult and horror bric-a-brac down the years without setting out to do so. When the local tat market was a going concern, i'd regularly pick up a scary skull shaped candle holder here, a "hilarious party-stopping Coffin Bank!" there, a stupid dayglo red bar of soap moulded to resemble (very badly) Count Dracula, a raggedy arsed poster advertising 'Women in Peril' trading cards, etc ... During vampire 'zine years, the readers got in on the act, and i still treasure the beautiful gifts they sent, most notably a Blue Peteresque model of a ping-pong ball headed undead rising from his aftershave box casket. And then there are all the garish Religious plates, the truly creepy skeleton fetish doll (worryingly authentic looking) the tacky souvenirs from The Ten Bells pub during its notorious Jack The Ripper makeover - a whole load of beautiful, worthless trash that seems to have sneaked up on me without my ever realising it. You'd probably have to pay a fortune just to have a house clearance guy junk the lot, but it's f**k**g lovely none the less.
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Post by carolinec on Feb 26, 2009 13:03:41 GMT
.. a collection of rubber monsters (not actually erasers, just things to play with) .. .. and I realised after I'd posted that that most "normal" children probably didn't actually play with rubber monsters! (not unless they're called Pugsley or Wednesday Addams anyway). I wonder if that explains the kind of person I am nowadays ...? Oh, and of course I forgot the collection of late 60s/early 70s vinyl albums and singles. I guess they might come under the "accidental" heading. When I first bought them it was purely to play the music, but once vinyl was replaced by tape and then CDs, I just hung onto them as a collection. I adore the kind of album cover art you used to get then. You don't get that same "feel" to it now that it's just CDs.
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Post by lobolover on Feb 26, 2009 15:53:16 GMT
W-well that was a....misunderstanding!
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Post by erebus on Apr 1, 2009 16:40:15 GMT
Pre cert horror films. And horror related models. Also dvds and books. Magazines too . All horror related.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Apr 1, 2009 18:43:52 GMT
Come now, don't be embarrassed. No one will laugh ..... Dem
In the vault?
Okay hand on heart.
I collected Civil War Cards, Mars Attacks cards and then....scraps... In my defence there was a huge debate about this among the boys (we were about eight years old) It must have been the first attempt at equal opportunities.
I then moved to football cards. Then toy soldiers until about sixteen and then these glow in the dark monsters. About the age of ten I became utterly obsessed with Tarzan paperbacks, followed by John Carter and Carson Napier, and to this day I cannot pass a green or red foursquare title without a leap in the heart. At various times I've recognised that collecting is bad for me and I stop, then start again. At the moment I'm collecting cap Kennedy stories by Gregory Kern. It's that thing with numbers... If anyone has any I'm your man.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Apr 1, 2009 19:27:42 GMT
I collected Civil War Cards, Mars Attacks cards and then....scraps... In my defence there was a huge debate about this among the boys (we were about eight years old) It must have been the first attempt at equal opportunities. Ooh, I used to love scraps! Though I was only ever after ones with Santa on them. I was obsessed with Santa till I was about 6 or 7, and I loved the old fashioned Santa pics you could get in scraps.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Apr 1, 2009 22:27:24 GMT
Scarred for life....
I liked those ridiculous cherubs, very sad. It was a brief fling quickly hidden until now
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Post by carolinec on Apr 1, 2009 22:28:05 GMT
I collected Civil War Cards, Mars Attacks cards and then....scraps... In my defence there was a huge debate about this among the boys (we were about eight years old) It must have been the first attempt at equal opportunities. Ooh, I used to love scraps! Though I was only ever after ones with Santa on them. I was obsessed with Santa till I was about 6 or 7, and I loved the old fashioned Santa pics you could get in scraps. ... er, I'm going to ask a really daft question now. What are (or were) scraps? Was this a boy thing then? Oh, just to add to my autograph collecting confession above, and to make Lurker soooooooo jealous, I've recently added Terry Jones' autograph to the Life of Brian video which Michael Palin signed for me at the same event (Bradford International Film Festival) last year. That'd be a nice one for your Python collection, Lurks - but you can't have it. It's mine, all mine! (fascinating interview he did too)
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Apr 1, 2009 22:48:53 GMT
Hmmmph! I've only got Mr Palin's autograph on my Python Scriptbooks, Dr Fegg's Nasty Book of Knowledge and Around the World in 80 Days - all signed at the same session, 20 years ago (Crikey!) when he asked if there were any other books in the shop I fancied having signed too, "Biography of Churchill? Book on Napoleon?" Oh, and the lovely signed photo, "With best fishes", that he sent after I sent him a Desperate Dan T-Shirt (guess which comic I'd just started working in then!) Haven't met any of the other Pythons - my favourite one's dead, anyway - but I did once make John Cleese laugh during a live online chat session to promote the Meaning of Life DVD.
As for scraps, they were generally little paper figures, cut-out reproductions from old Victorian greetings cards and illustrations from the looks of them, for sticking into scrapbooks. I used to get mine from a little newsagents for a few pence a packet. I really don't think it was a boy thing at all...
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